- mutant catfish

[Guest guest]

I felt safe to write that as they are bottom feeders and it is hard to

see more than a few inches into Lake Michigan. I have no idea if

there are even catfish there, but if they are, I am sure they are

mutants. The great lakes are not the cleanest waters in the

world, sad to say.........But 15 y/o human mutants have to be

loads more fun to hang out with! LOL! (poor kid).

I am going to think long and hard about filing a complaint with

the state medical board. I do not know why that had never

crossed my mind. All that I was thinking of was the in-house

complaint system or filing a lawsuit. The first, I started to do until

I got pressure from the higher ups about not putting my job in

jeopardy....and the lawsuit thing I thought, in my instance, not

appropriate. I thought that those were my only two options. I

think I will investigate and see if there is a web site that explains

the process and see if what I experienced would fit the criteria for

legitimate complaint. I know that I feel strongly that what she did

has to be made known to who-ever oversees physician

behaviour. I understand legitimate human error and am quick to

forgive that....but when it is down right mistreatment due to

laziness, deliberate arrogance or personality conflct or other

unprofessional behaviour than I think it needs to be

documented.

I am sorry about the incident with your father.....and your mother

having to deal with the emotional toll. I can understand that she

was reluctant to pursue a legal fight as sometimes they put the

accuser on trial and try to blame the victim. Not a fun thing to go

through when you are grieving. That is all you need....some

greedy corporate lawyer trying to make your family feel guilty

because of an error by a trusted family doctor. Like it is our fault

for picking out a " bad " doctor.......Sadly, negligence that directly

results in death isn't as rare as people think. A neighbor of a

friend recently passed away from a cerebral hemorrhage after a

fall when she was discharged from an ER even though she was

on fairly high levels of coumadin......and they didn't even do

anykind of CT or MRI work-up. Just told her to take NSAIDs for

her headache.......a sad case. She died that night I think. Not

sure of all the details but it seems to be a clear case of " OOPS " .

I had to re-read your beach scene again as we have lost our

summer. Today it turned cold - low 60s upper 50s and dark

gloomy sky. Not even getting any signifcant rain out of it (which

we need desperately). It is suppose to be cold for the next few

days then a slow warm-up by next week. So the shells and

beach sand and even a dolphin or two will be welcome. I have

an 4 x 8 foot pond, about two foot deep near my deck....the

dolphin can live there until it freezes! LOL. We can put him next

to the buffalo that my husband is waiting for......Supposedly there

is a law on the books that if you own five or more acres of land,

the government will give you a free buffalo. My husband wrote

our senator telling him that we wanted ours. This was 7 years

ago I think. We are still waiting.................too funny. (It must have

been when the feds were encouraging homesteading or

something).

Thanks for the information about the complaint system. I think

that this is something that I need to look into. At the least, it

could be interesting to see if she has any other problems with

patients.

laurie